The Saint's Hope
Chapter 1 – Prologue
Disclaimer: I do not repeat DO NOT own TMNT and crew in any way cause they belong to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (Only knows as the Greatest Guys on Earth!) while other characters like Sally and many more that happen in this fanfic rightfully belongs to me and only ME!
Announcement from our writer: HEY! Sorry for the wait, it's just I was busy writing up the summary for the fanfics that I was going to write in the future. It did took up most of my time but it was worth it cause I think you guys are gonna like this story. It takes place during the 2k3 series of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. One of my favourite shows on the planet!
Also, I will try my best to finish the other fanfics as soon as possible. Just need the inspiration, that's all. Just…give me time.
This fanfic will be about the first season to the FINAL SEASON! Yep, that's right. I ain't stoping until I have finish the entire story which ends in Turtles Forever. This story will be filled with Action, Adventure, Humour, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance and much more. I hope you'll enjoy this fanfic that I took a long time to prepare. So, relax and read on!
It was a clear night sky in New York City as a young girl was running on the rooftops; along with four other people.
"My name is Salvadora. What I'm about to tell you is what I would consider is a life-changing experience."
As she comes to a ledge, she performs a double flip which lands her in a forward roll on the other building. She then resumes her running as the other four people catches up to her.
"For all my life, I have always wondered what my past was like before this whole adventure started."
She continues to run as the three people catch up with her. They all looked at her and smiled at her as she smiles back. They continue to jump from building to building.
"Before coming into this family, I was born to fight with these skills and…these powers for some reason; like a purpose. I don't know why but that's not going to hold me down. Because sooner or later, I WILL find these answers and I WILL find out who I am. No matter what."
They then jump down into the alleyway as the moon continues to shine in a clear night.
"This is my story."
(15 years before the series – Manhattan, 10:15pm)
The moon was gleaming down on a serene night as the rat scurried across the alleys of New York City. But tonight was not all calm; not for this certain person. A young brunette woman in a long sleeved grey shirt with black tracksuit pants and white sneakers was carrying a bundle that needs both her hands to hold it steady. She was racing through the alleyways. She was on a mission; a mission to protect something.
It was something very important to her, more than her life.
The young women continued run through the dark alleys that no good soul would ever set foot during afterhours. She runs through many alleys until can to face-to-face with a wall.
A dead-end! She was definitely in panic mode. She looks around for a few seconds; trying to find way to avoid the danger. She takes a second to catch her as she looks behind to see the shadows of the monsters approaching.
With time running out, Serenity slowly walks backwards until her back met with the wall.
This was it, for her and her child. She takes one look at her daughter. Her eyes were shut closed as both her hair and skin were bounced off from the moonlight. Even in great danger, her face is always calm. The young women's eyes were then darted towards a man-holed cover, right in front of her! A ticket of escaping her and her daughter's doom!
She puts her right hand out in front and closes her eyes for a second. If anyone was around her, they would not believe what would they seen next. Her hand began to glow and the next thing happen, the manhole cover began to float, five feet in the air. The young woman is quite pleased with her powers. She has a gift of Telekinetic.
As it continues to float in the air, the young woman hops down through the hole as the cover falls on top of the man hole. As soon as she landed in the sewers, she continues to run with no second thought.
She then halted on the spot. She looked behind her to see no-one has followed her down here – yet. Fearing for her baby's safety, she knew she can't bring anymore danger to her child again. They were after the baby; not her.
With no other option, the young women decided to leave her child in a safe place. She looked around to see a basket just floating around in the sewers. She then grabbed the basket and then runs to a corner nearby. As she takes a minute to catch her breath, she carefully placed her baby in the basket.
She then pulls out something that was around her neck. It was a necklace with a red pedant that wrapped around by what it appeared to be dragon that is attaching to a long brown, some-what unbreakable string. There are words that are engraved on the back of the amulet:
To my daughter, Salvadora. Never give up on hope.
The young woman was giving her the only thing to remember her by, even if she doesn't remember in such a young age. She lifts her baby in her arms and hugs her which stirs the child up. Tears escape her eyes as she looks at her baby.
"Goodbye, my child. I hope someone will find you and raise you to be a strong person that you already are; just like your parents and perhaps one day in the future, you will know the truth about yourself."
She carefully places the baby in the basket and pushes the basket back into the shadows. She stands up and walks away as she cautionary looks around her surrounds and takes one final look to her daughter.
"I love you so much, sweetheart. I will never, ever forget you."
And with that, she is gone...
(A few minutes later…)
A tall rat wearing a brown robe was walking around the sewer with what appears to be four small turtles right behind. They were looking around for a home for him and the turtles; his sons. The rat couldn't believe that everything changed a month ago. From losing his one and only owner to mutated into a giant rat plus four turtles.
As the giant rodent continues to walk on, his ears flick up as he heard a distant cry in the sewer. He orders his sons to follow him as he walks towards to the source of the cry.
Through a number of jumps and turns in the sewers, they found who was making that cry. It was a small baby; about the same age as the turtles whom were standing behind the rat. She had short brown hair with rosy cheeks and bright hazel eyes. She was all curled up in a beige blanket as she lies in the basket.
He looks around to see if anyone was here to collect the child but there wasn't anyone in sight. It would seem that the child was left down here for a reason or perhaps, was left down here to die. The rat lifts the basket carefully as looks at the baby. He also noticed the amulet around her neck. He holds the amulet in his paw as he flips it around to see the engraved words on the back.
"Splinter?"
The rat turns his head to see the young turtles. All four of them with big eyes show a curious expression on their faces as they wait for their father's. He looks at the small child in his grasp as he looks on with rational look. If no-one is coming for the child, then, he is now responsible for her. He turns around to show the turtles about his new surprise.
"My sons, I am pleased to announce a new addition to the family." He kneels down to show the turtles their new sibling. The turtles were overcome with wonder of the baby human as they have never seen a human before in their life.
"What's her name, father?" one of the turtles asked his father. As the rat ponders in thought, he looks back at the amulet and looks at the engraved words and the name for the baby was right in front of him.
"Her…her name shall be Salvadora; your new sister."
It was officially. They have a new sister. The four young turtles made a pact that they will take care of their new sibling and never put in harm's way. They continue to walk through the sewer in search for a home when something has caught the rat's eye. There was a book that was floating in the water. He reaches down to pick the item up. He then realised it was a book on the Renaissance Masters. As he flips through the book, he has found some interesting names. If the baby can have a name, so can his sons.
He turns to the turtles as he closed the book, "I shall now give you all names," he went from left to right, "Leonardo…Raphael…Donatello…Michelangelo…" he looks down to the child in his arms, "and Salvadora…my family" And with that, they were all given names for the first time, and later, a home.
(15 years later – 5:00am)
The sun has risen over the horizon over the Big Apple as a new day begins to rise. The birds are chirping, cars and buses are honking and the sound of alarm clocks have been set off to waken their owners. Everyone has risen from their slumber to begin their day.
So does one particular person.
Below the concrete surface of the city, lies another world that no-one knows. Through the sewers is a small burrow where that certain someone has risen from her beauty sleep. She pulls the cotton covers off to reveal a young girl with long brunette hair that goes along her back, rosy cheeks and hazel eyes while wearing a black loose top and shorts that acts like her pj. She sits up as she looks around the room to see her roommates. The four turtles that she knew for the first fifteen years of her life were all now grown up as teenagers but today wasn't like any other day.
"Happy Birthday to me" she whispers to herself as she is filled with glee with the wonders of turning fifteen years old. She climbs out of her bed as she quietly tip-toes to her wardrobe. She pulls the drawers out silently; trying to not wake the turtles up who were snoring up like a storm but she was used to the noise. She knows she can't sleep without it but it wouldn't kill her to have her very own room. She pulls out her clothes for the day, closes up the draws and tip-toes out of the room to let the reptiles sleep peacefully.
A few minutes later, the young girl is fully changed and ready for a new day. She was wearing what appears to be a loose short-sleeve blue kimono top with a sleeve less white tunic over the top. Both of them have a blossom pattern on the trim. To hold them together, she is wearing a cyan sash or in her case, an Obi. Underneath, she was wearing her tight white shorts.
On her arms, she is wearing black finger-less gauntlets with metal bracers. Around her waist, she has her very own custom belt that holds her Dual Kodachi with retractable gauntlets. On her feet are black lace-up Tabi sneakers with blue knee-length Tabi socks. Pretty stylish for a teenager who loves to fight.
On her head is her cyan ribbon headband with the same blossom pattern just like the one on her clothing and it was placed around the centre of her forehead and her long brown hair is tied back in a fishtail braid with her bangs are going to the right.
She looks around her home that she and her family have been living for their entire life. One part of the lair was the kitchen where the young girl spends every hour once a week cleaning up with no help from her brothers. Another part of the lair is the training grounds where, believe it or not, is where she and her brothers are trained to be ninjas. The third part is where the living room is and also where the family spends most of their time watching their favourite shows. It's one of her favourite places in the lair – as long as she and her brothers don't fight over the remote all the time. And the last part is the bathroom and the bedroom. Unfortunately, the place is quite cramped for a family of five but hopefully, they will make some more room in the future.
She looks to the photo that was hanging on the wall of her home. It was a picture of a Japanese man with a rat on his shoulders. She smiles as she bows to the picture.
"Ohayou-gozaimasu, Master Yoshi." she greeted. She has heard stories about this wonderful man from her father who turns out to be his father. She admires the gentleman and wishes she could have met him years ago. Although she hasn't said this to the others but she always has some kind of connection to him; like she was a part of him and he was a part of her. But she will never know because he has been dead for many years. It all happened before she was born. That's what her father told her.
She walks over to the kitchen where she begins to pour her own breakfast. After she pulls out the bowl, spoon, cereal box and milk from the cupboard and places them on the kitchen bench, she looks to her sides to see no-one was in sight. Not even her father or her brothers were up yet.
She takes a few steps back as she left her right hand in front of the cereal box and closes her eyes. A second later, her hand began to glow and the next thing happen; the cereal box and the carton of milk begin to float and pour the contents into the bowl.
Feeling pleased about this, the young girl doesn't know why she has these powers. All she knows is that she has a feeling that she was special. Well, a lot more special than her brothers; not just because she has powers and they don't but her name is a lot different than her brothers. What her father told her, her name means "Saviour". She also doesn't know why she was named like that. Maybe, just maybe, her father knew she wasn't just like her brothers and wanted her to stand out.
The hairs on the back of her neck begin to stick up. Something was approaching her – or someone. Two things came across her mind: Attack or Speak. Either way, that person will know she heard or sense him coming. By the sound of the footsteps that person was making, it had a faint – but quiet - sound like that person does not want her to hear him.
She puts the box and carton down as she waits a few more seconds to make her move. With her opponent comes closer, she smirks as she quickly whips her right leg around; hoping to hit her opponent with a nice roundhouse kick to the head. But unfortunately, the attacker grabbed her ankle which halted her attack and leaves her foot in the air.
"I see your Levitation has improved quite well, your roundhouse kick has greatly toughen up but your Spatial Sense could use a little bit of work. Guess we'll have to keep you out of danger a lot more." She lets her leg down to see the certain turtle who she knows that would be wake this early in the morning. The eldest, blue turtle, the Fearless Leader, the de facto leader of the team – her best friend and big brother – Leonardo. The turtle that she is very close to, who always been her side since the day she became part of the family. He lets her ankle go as she grabs her breakfast and takes the first bite.
"Well, my powers has improved really well ever since I was little, I have been using Mikey as a dummy lat-HEY! And I DID sense you coming this way, Leo! I'm trying to do my best to master it thank you very much. And I can handle pretty much any danger that comes in my way, ok?" She said as she walks past him; heading towards the living room. That's right. The young girl has powers. She began to have them since she was four. She doesn't know why she has them but she knew they were…something special. She finishes her mouthful as she resumes talking again. "I'll admit: I'm still curious about how my powers came to be. I don't have the answers for everything. And besides, one of these days, I will be able to go out there and find out the answers for myself."
The blue turtle just simply smiles at that remark as he turns to grab his bowl. "Well, good luck with that. Oh! By the way, Sal?" She turns to her mutant brother. "Happy Birthday. May all your hope and excitement shine on you today." He states as he pours his own breakfast.
She smiles at him. It was sweet of him to say something on her special day. It kind of feels all warm inside of her. "Aww, thanks" she acknowledges as her backside meets the couch. She was munching down on her Sugar Bran cereal while she was flicking through the channels on the family television. She left it on the news where they were talking about the recent robberies that has happen for the past week. Where are all the policemen when you need them? I guess snacking on some coffee and doughnuts rather than fighting crime; according to her book.
Even at a young age, Sally loves to watch the news. Staying in the lair for all her life is no fun but learning information from the surface through the tv is. She learns a lot. But the one thing that she doesn't understand is why wouldn't her father let her go up to the surface? Was it because she has powers? Or maybe because she lives with a family of mutants? Well, one thing for sure, Sally's father would NEVER let her or her brothers up to the surface; despite being the only human in the family.
"Tanjyoubi omedetou gozaimasu, Salvadora- san."
Sally turned around to see her father behind her. He was like any other father: Kind, caring, responsible for his children, teaching them everything they need know before they are ready to leave home. Though overprotective of his children at times but still understandable.
To Sally, her father was a lot different from any other fathers in the world. He was a ninja master but other than that, he was a rat. A giant, talking, mutant rat. His usually attire is his brown Kimono robe that wraps around his little grey body and walking around with a stick; his staff, in his hand. Why does he have a stick? Well, that's a story for another time.
His daughter was not the first human who accepted him as part of the family. Another story for another time. He was actually the same rat who found her years ago when she was a baby and accepted her into the family. Ever since then, Sally has been very courteously to her father. She smiles as she puts her bowl on the floor and stands up from her seat.
"Arigatou-gozaimasu, Otosan" she acknowledges to her Sensei as they bow respectfully.
"My dear Salvadora, I wish you with all my heart as you enjoy today filled with love and hope." He addresses to her. Sally just simply stands there; smiling with delight; hoping for more thoughtful sayings, rather than gift.
"And for your special day,…" He then pulls out a wrapped parcel out of his robe and hands it to the young girl. Ok, maybe just one. Sally's eyes have become like dinner plates as she is takes the gift out of her father's hand. She unwrap her gift with enjoyment. As she pulls his gift out of the paper, she has become speechless.
It was a diary. The front cover was decorated with the same blossom like her outfit with a beige background and a black border. The diary itself also came with a pencil with the same design as the cover. It was gorgeous from her point of view but for some reason, she wasn't smiling.
One look like that at her new present from the young girl and Master Splinter's smile disappears. "What is the matter, my dear? You are not usually your optimism self. Especially on your birthday. Do you not like the gift that I have prepared for you?"
She looks up to her "Oh? No! No, no, no, Master Splinter. I love the present. It's beautiful. It's just that…" A few seconds later, she decided to tell him. She knows she cans never keep secrets to her father. Not even on her birthday.
"Well, Sensei. For the past fifteen years of my life, I always wanted to know what my life was like before I met you guys. I mean, you guys are great and wonderful and all. It's just that…I don't where I came from; let alone of how my powers work exactly. I just wish I-I…" The rat places his hand on her shoulder from talking too much.
"Patience, my dear. The answers will some come to you. Do not let these little questions become a big burden on your shoulders. A true ninja must balance his or her problems alone. Relax my dear and enjoy your day." He exclaim. He then walks away to the kitchen as he prepares to make his morning tea. "And since it is your special day, we will have our training session tonight. Make sure you tell your brothers."
"Don't worry, I will tell them." She response as she looks down at her gift. At least, the guys will have something to look forward to when they wake up. She keeps looking at her diary that she received from Splinter as her birthday gift. Well, what better way to start the day then by writing it in her new diary. Sally picks up her pen and begins to write.
Day 1
Dear Diary.
My name is Salvadora. Nickname: Sally or Sal. Full name: Salvadora Splinter-san. The reason I'm writing today was because today is my BIRTHDAY! YAY! Fifteen today and feeling good! Well, almost. You see, what I'm about to tell you is what I would consider is a life-changing experience.
For all my life, I have always wondered what my past was like before this whole adventure started.
Before coming into this family, I was born to fight with these skills and…these powers for some reason; like a purpose. I don't know why but that's not going to hold me down. Because sooner or later, I WILL find these answers and I WILL find out who I am. No matter what.
This is my story.
She decided to close the chapter. Just for today. She then takes her new diary and places it under her pillow. She has feeling that today was going to be something more special and exciting. Something that is going to change her life; forever.
Looks like it's the start of a new adventure for Miss Salvadora and there's going to be a lot more in stores for the young heroine as the story continues to unfold. Find out next week on:
The Saint's Hope: Things Change
Author's Notes: And there you have it! My first chapter of my NEW STORY! I have to tell you, it has been a LOOOOONG time since I have uploaded a chapter in one of my stories. And for that, I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO sorry for taking so long with my stories. Why? Because I was, again, busy last year and I didn't have time to finish them but now with that's out of the way, let the writing of the Fanfics commences!
First things first, I just back from my Easter Holidays and now, I also have a two week break! Sweet! Which means…more Fanfics to write! I'll see if I can finish the other ones while I have this one in progress but it's kind of hard to get some inspiration nowadays, you know? But, let's not let that hold me back, ok?
Another thing,…hang on (thinks for a minute and realizes I haven't got anything to say) Never mind. Oh! I also update my bio. That thing could really use a clean-up since I haven't used it in a long time. I guess I leave it until tomorrow. Other than that, my story will be uploaded every week if I have the time to write my other fanfics. So, like I said before: "Relax and read on!" Enjoy!
Until we meet again,
TheDragonLord2912